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Ingredient vs Elementary - What's the difference?

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As a noun ingredient

is one of the substances present in a mixture.

As an adjective elementary is

relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something.

ingredient

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One of the substances present in a mixture.
  • * Sir Isaac Newton
    • By way of analysis we may proceed from compounds to ingredients .
  • * Arbuthnot
    • Water is the chief ingredient in all the animal fluids and solids.

    Holonyms

    * mixture

    Related terms

    * ingress

    External links

    * (wikipedia "ingredient") * * ----

    elementary

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Relating to the basic, essential or fundamental part of something.
  • Relating to an elementary school.
  • (physics) Relating to a subatomic particle.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
    • , author=(Jeremy Bernstein) , title=A Palette of Particles , volume=100, issue=2, page=146 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.}}
  • (archaic) Sublunary; not celestial; belonging to the sublunary sphere, to which the four classical elements (earth, air, fire and water) were confined; composed of or pertaining to these four elements.

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